$UESCw. Format

Processes a character string that is encoded in the current SAS session, and then writes the character string in Unicode escape (UESC) representation.
Category: Character
Alignment: left

Syntax

$UESCw.

Syntax Description

w
specifies the width of the input field.
Default:8
Range:1–32000

Details

If the characters are not available on all operating environments, for example, 0–9, a–z, A–Z, they must be represented in UESC. $UESCw. can be nested.

Comparisons

The $UESCw. format performs processing that is opposite of the $UESCEw. format.

Example

This example uses the Japanese Shift_JIS encoding, which is supported under the UNIX operating system.
Statements
Results
----+----1----+----2
x='xxx' ;
y='u5927'
z='uu5927';
put x = $uesc10. ;
put y = $uesc10. ;
put z = $uesc10. ;
¥u5927
¥uu5927
¥uuu5927

See Also

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